Word: workdays
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...maybe even 5, the blare of the alarm breaks the night, and another workday dawns. As an arm gropes to stop the noise and the whole body rebels against the harsh call of morning, the thought is almost always the same: I have to get more sleep. That night, after 17 or 18 hours of fighting traffic, facing deadlines and racing the clock, the weary soul collapses into bed once again for an all-too-brief respite. And just before the slide into slumber, the nagging thought returns: I have to get more sleep...
...front of Leningrad's palatial city hall and a blanket of luminescent mist settles over the gilded dome of St. Isaac's Cathedral, just across the square. Night and fog come early now to the far northern city, built on islands in the Neva River. But the workday is far from over for Leningrad Mayor Anatoli Sobchak. In his elegant second-floor office, once used by the Czars, he reflects on the problems of this metropolis of 5 million, famed as the cradle of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. "I feel as if I am wrapped in cotton wool," he says...
Would-be career women face equally great obstacles at home, where men feel no obligation to pitch in. A 1986 government survey of dual-career couples found that men devote only eight minutes of a workday to household chores and child rearing, compared with 3 1/2 hours for their wives. Younger men increasingly take out the garbage and play with their children on weekends but still leave most household affairs to their wives. A 33-year-old banker typically relies on his wife to lay out his clothes each morning. But, he adds, "I select the necktie...
...member psychiatric staff to five. The skeleton crew has little time for outreach -- going into the streets and cajoling the mentally ill into accepting help. PET (for psychiatric emergency team) units used to respond to mental crises anytime. Now they rarely make calls after their normal 10-hour workday...
ACCORDING to news accounts, at 3:30 a.m. Monday the first of what would soon be 4,000 Palestinians gathered on the Temple Mount, stockpiling stones, bottles, and other heavy throwables. Although it was a regular Muslim workday, the large crowd had excellent reason for being up so early. Soon thousands of Jews would be assembling to worship at the Western Wall in celebration of the fifth day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkoth...